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Saturday, May 31, 2014

China Rolling out Global High Speed Rail Plans and Projects

Without
question, China is the only regime able to serious tackle this ambitious a
project. Yet their continuing build out
of their internal network actually proves capability and serious capacity. That capacity will need a future market come
2020 and why not the world?

An extended Asian
network of track is most attractive, particularly is they shoot a branch down
into India and into Africa. There are
serious potential markets all along these corridors that would naturally
blossom. Again it is necessary to target
the low hanging fruit like Europe, Africa and India.

A Bering route is a
difficult proposition at best and better for freight haulage perhaps. I personally think even that has better ways.

Yet in the long haul,
we will do it anyway unless we come up with a container sized wormhole
first. Which I no longer dismiss as
impossible either.

China's
academy of engineering is talking about a global high speed rail network. There
are reasons to doubt that the politics and negotiations can come together.
However, China plans to have 50,000 kilometers high speed rail network built
inside of China by 2020. The external line to the US via Russia and Canada
would be an added 12000 km outside of China and a line to Europe via India
would be of similar length. So 40% more high speed rail that China was planning
and building already.

China's name in chinese is Middle Kingdom.

China would be building a high a global high
speed rail network where the lines lead to and from the middle kingdom.

The Pan Asian line is funded and being built and
will bring South East Asian economies closer to China.

China can afford to do it and the connections
would be more powerful than any negotiated trade deal. It would be increased
physical access.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang depicted a dream that
all African capitals are connected with high-speed rail, so as to boost
pan-African communication and development

Li's trip, which also takes in oil-rich Nigeria
and Angola, would not simply be for energy deals and Beijing will be seeking to
help boost African living standards.

Li said he hoped that some of the loans being
offered would be used to support small and medium-seized companies in Africa,
adding that economic development on the continent offered huge opportunities
for both China and Africa.

"History and reality make clear to all:
China's development gives opportunity to Africa; Africa develops, and China
also benefits," he said.

Trips by Chinese leaders to Africa are often
marked by big natural resource deals, triggering criticism from some quarters
that China is only interested in the continent's mineral and energy wealth.

"Right now we're already in discussions. Russia
has already been thinking about this for many years," Wang said.

The project – nicknamed the
"China-Russia-Canada-America" line – would run for 13,000km, about
3,000km further than the Trans-Siberian Railway. The entire trip would take two
days, with the train travelling at an average of 350km/h (220mph).

NBF - China's fastest test trains can go about
double this speed and low air pressure tunnels could further boost the speed. If
the line were built it could be upgrade for one day or even twelve hour or less
travel times.

The reported plans leave ample room for
skepticism. No other Chinese railway experts have come out in support of the
proposed project. Whether the government has consulted Russia, the US or Canada
is also unclear. The Bering Strait tunnel alone would require an unprecedented
feat of engineering – it would be the world's longest undersea tunnel – four
times the length of the Channel Tunnel.

According to the state-run China Daily, the
tunnel technology is "already in place" and will be used to build a
high-speed railway between the south-east province of Fujian and Taiwan.
"The project will be funded and constructed by China," it said.
"The details of this project are yet to be finalised."

Google Translate version of the Chinese
Academy of Engineering high speed rail proposals and projects

Pan-Asian high-speed railway to start
construction next month [NBF- his is funded and getting built]

A Eurasian high-speed rail

Line: From London, via Paris, Berlin, Warsaw,
Kiev, Moscow, after over two branches, one into Kazakhstan, another virtual
point of the Far East Khabarovsk, after entering the territory of China
Manzhouli

Process: Domestic segment has already started,
is still being negotiated outside the lines

2 Central High Speed ​​Rail

Line: The starting point is Urumqi, through Kazakhstan,
Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran, Turkey and other countries, and finally to
Germany

Process: Domestic segment is advancing, still
being negotiated outside the lines

3 Pan-Asian high-speed rail

Line: starting from Kunming, followed by Vietnam,
Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, arrived in Singapore

Process: Inter-China-Burma railway tunnel
commenced in June

4 Russia plus the United States and
high-speed rail

Line: starting from the northeast all the way
north through the Bering Strait in Siberia arrived to build a tunnel way across
the Pacific Ocean, arriving in Alaska, and then go from Alaska, Canada, the
United States finally arrived

Process: being discussed

And then to Africa, Premier Li Keqiang visited
each force will recommend to the local Chinese high-speed railway from Thailand
to Eastern Europe. Technically sound, mature operating experience, quality and
security, cost-effective, enjoys a good reputation in the international market
...... May 5, at the China-aided AU Conference Center, he enumerated the
advantages of Chinese high-speed rail to the five African leaders.

In the name of such a high level of "high
iron salesman" behind, is five years China has launched high-speed rail
"going out" strategy. This is a big game.

And Northeast were starting from Xinjiang, a
North-South high-speed rail construction two intercontinental connectivity in
Europe; from Kunming, the construction of a direct high-speed rail through
Southeast Asia, Singapore ...... This is China high-speed rail "going
out" of the three strategic direction. In the more distant future, China
intends to increase cooperation with Russia and the United States, the
construction of a across the Bering Strait, up to tens of thousands of
kilometers of high-speed rail connecting the two continents Ami.

Yesterday, the Chinese Academy of Engineering,
the famous railway expert Wang Meng-shu accept the Beijing Times
[microblogging] Reporter interview, described the progress of these cross-border
high-speed rail lines.

In 2009, China formally proposed high-speed rail
"going out" strategy. The following year, the Ministry of Railways
for the establishment of a dozen different countries working group officially
began operations this strategy. China's participation in the preparation of the
Eurasian high-speed rail, high-speed rail in Central Asia and the Pan-Asian
high-speed rail, it is three directions of this strategy.

According to the "Southern Weekend"
previously disclosed, the planned Eurasian high-speed rail from London, via
Paris, Berlin, Warsaw, Kiev, Moscow, after over two branches, one into Kazakhstan,
another virtual point of the Far East Khabarovsk Trask, Manchuria after
entering the territory of China.

With conditions similar to the Eurasian
high-speed rail, high-speed rail in Central Asia is also not completely
settled. The starting point of this railway line is Urumqi, after Kazakhstan,
Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran, Turkey and other countries, and finally to
Germany. Coincides with the ancient Silk Road.

Yesterday, Wang Meng-shu in an interview with
Beijing Times reporter interviewed introduction, Pan-Asian high-speed rail
should start in June this year, from western Yunnan Diamond Hill built an
approximately 30 km of tunnels leading to Myanmar, from Burma to the east, out
of a branch line to to Thailand, and the other is via a main line Laos,
Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore leads. This will become China's leading high-wire
Southeast Asian countries a convenient channel.

Wang Meng-shu told reporters that the current
high-speed rail and Central Eurasian domestic high-speed rail segment or have
started, or are pushed outside the line in negotiations on how to build it. Go
north on Western Europe via the Eurasian high-speed rail line, since the need
to go through Russia, China advocates the use of internationally accepted
standards of 1435 mm track, but the Russian railway network has been using
quite different from the international standard 1524 mm broad gauge, connect
the not yet settled.

And Eurasian same high-speed rail, high-speed
rail in Central Asia of the negotiations. Wang Meng-shu said that the
high-speed rail line through Central Asia, Southern Europe destined Germany,
which is the ancient Silk Road, trade between China and Europe in the past
mainly rely on cargo vessels, such as China imported advanced equipment from
Germany, currently ship transportation needs, But from Europe to China is bound
to go through the Malacca Strait, shipping at least a month to arrive. Future
high-speed rail in Central Asia, once completed, can save a lot of time and
cost, "go overland through the high-speed rail, freight from China to
Germany may only need a short period of five days."

The replacement of resources through the
construction of high-speed rail

Three cross-border high-speed rail in the
pipeline, due to the cross-border high-speed railway construction involving
many countries, and also funded the construction of the countries involved
along with the completion of operational problems. In this regard, Wang
Meng-shu said, these cross-border high-speed rail construction has a principle,
by the Chinese side of the capital, the technology and the equipment to
construction, is completed by the passing countries will be involved in
operations. In this process, China will negotiate with the country, with the
construction of high-speed rail to replace local resources, such as Central
Asia and Europe, oil and gas resources, Burma potash, thereby establishing a
long-term cooperation mechanism to protect our resources to use.

Wang Meng-shu, currently planning several of
these cross-border high-speed rail are referring to this concept in the
negotiation and operation, through the "replacement of existing
resources" approach, on the one hand to promote connectivity between China
and neighboring Asian countries to facilitate trade between countries, the
other hand, imports from China in order to protect scarce resources, which will
help the oil, gas flow.

Wang Meng-shu introduction, the construction of
these three high-speed rail lines, China is not only responsible for surveying,
planning, design, construction, and will ensure that after completion of
operations, personnel training. According to Wang Meng-shu, at present there is
a regular train from Zhengzhou to carry exploration equipment and technical
personnel destined for Central Europe and other regions of the high-speed rail
line through the area for exploration may negotiate with the relevant countries
are being conducted.

For the "replacement resources with
high-speed rail technology" of cooperation, the relevant person in charge
of the Ministry of Railways had to accept the "Southern Weekend"
interview, he explained: "China is another country to build high-speed
rail, the money to get money, get money exchanged for something else This is a
fair way to trade. "

Vision for the future - Canada and the U.S.
and Russia begin high-speed rail plan

People are expected to take the high-speed rail
to the United States

Wang Meng-shu also mentioned that China is
considering the construction of a railroad through Siberia, across the Bering
Strait to Alaska directly, through Canada to the United States from China in
the future so that you can take the train to the United States.

Wang Meng-shu introduction of the railway in
Northeast China's departure from the way north through the Bering Strait in
Siberia arrived, by way of the construction of a tunnel through the Pacific,
arrived in Alaska, and then go from Alaska, Canada, the United States finally
arrived. "It is now talking about, which is the idea of ​​Russia for many
years." Wang Meng-shu said that the construction of the railway across the
Bering Strait need to build about 200 kilometers of tunnels, the tunnel leading
technology in Fujian Taiwan High Speed ​​Rail tunnel will applications are now
technically qualified. The railway will also take the Chinese out of
technology, the capital building, and replacement of resources through the
country the way forward, this plan is currently under discussion.

Wang Meng-shu said the line preliminary estimate
of about 13,000 kilometers, if completed, China to the United States will be
able to no longer have to take a plane, take the high-speed rail can be viewed
along the multi-country scenery, according to the 350 km / h design speed
passenger ride high-speed rail is expected to less than two days walk from the
United States.

Several of these cross-border high-speed railway
construction plan was put forth on the concern, but the construction of the
railway is not easy. There have been an example to analyze high-speed rail in
Europe and Asia that China's high-speed rail construction of these
international challenges facing at least the following three areas:

One is difficult to raise huge amounts of money.
Eurasian necessary funds to build high-speed rail will be an astronomical
figure, not a Chinese government can afford. Even along the countries are
willing to provide some funding for the Eurasian high-speed rail, still unable
to meet demand.

Second, the rail operator would be a problem.
Eurasian high-speed rail to pass through a dozen countries, how to manage and
operate cross-border high-speed rail system this will be a huge challenge. If
along the Eurasian countries can not agree on a high-speed rail operators,
subsequent cooperation would be impossible.

The third is still unable to resolve technical
problems. Eurasia is the world's largest continent, geological conditions along
the Eurasian high-speed rail is extremely complex, both alpine valley insurance
also has rivers and lakes, the construction of a complex geological
environments across so many high-speed rail is technically faces enormous challenges.

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